J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died yesterday at age 91. The critically acclaimed novel about teenage angst shocked and inspired the world of literature for decades, while its author refused interviews and eventually withdrew to a small town in New Hampshire.

"Many readers were created by `The Catcher in The Rye,' and many writers, too," said "Everything Is Illuminated" novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. "He and his characters embodied a kind of American resistance that has been sorely missed these last few years, and will now be missed even more."

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Brooke Stabler
from Oklahoma City

If one wanted to create the Holden Caulfield for the modern age it would be simple enough....write of the teenager who refuses to connect....to the internet, the cell phone, the television set. What a misfit that teenager would be! How easy for that teenager to be turned off by his peers who need to be tied to 762 "friends" electronically.